Posted: 26 May 2013 05:03 AM PDT
Την
ώρα που ο Συνασπισμός της συριακής αντιπολίτευσης καλεί τους μαχητές
της σιιτικής οργάνωσης του Λιβάνου, Χεζμπολάχ, να αυτομολήσουν, σε
ομιλία του ο ηγέτης της οργάνωσης Χάσαν Νασράλα υποσχέθηκε νίκη των
μαχητών της Χεζμπολάχ που πολεμούν στο πλευρό των συριακών κυβερνητικών
στρατευμάτων στην Συρία και απέρριψε οποιαδήποτε πιθανότητα συμμαχίας με
τους Σύρους αντάρτες.
«Με
δύο μόνο λέξεις, μπορώ να συγκεντρώσω δεκάδες χιλιάδες εθελοντές ώστε
να αγωνιστούν για τον Μπασάρ αλ Άσαντ», είπε, υποστηρίζοντας ότι
λαμβάνει καθημερινά επιστολές μέχρι και από γονείς, που τον παρακαλούν
να στείλουν τους γιους τους να πολεμήσουν στη Συρία.
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Hizballah
leader Hassan Nasrallah vowed Saturday night, May 25, to expand his
movement’s military role in the Syrian civil war. “With just two words, I
can muster tens of thousands of volunteers to fight for Bashar Assad,”
he said, claiming that he receives daily letters from parents begging
him to send their only sons to fight in Syria. Al Qaeda fighters were
streaming into Syria and Israel planned more attacks, he warned, in a
speech marking the 13th anniversary of Israel’s military withdrawal from
South Lebanon.
The
Hizballah leader said if Sunni Islamists took over in Syria, they would
pose a threat to the entire Lebanese population. If Assad falls, so too
will the “resistance front” against Israel - as well as the Palestinian
people of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. “Hizballah will not let
that happen!” Nasrallah declared.
DEBKAfile’s
military sources: Nasrallah’s speech denotes his movement’s plunging
ever deeper into the Syrian conflict. From limited involvement, he has
undertaken to fight for Assad to the end, for better or for worse.
The
issue is no longer, as Israeli officials insist, whether he can get
hold of the advanced Iranian weapons supplied him through Syria, only
whether Hizballah can fulfill its two twofold goal. One is to tip the
scales of the war in favor of the Syrian army and the other is to
contribute enough troops to the various war sectors to free Syrian
forces for battling Israel in the war of attrition, which Assad and
Nasrallah have both declared.
Hizballah’s
Deputy Secretary Sheikh Naim Qassem said Friday that President Assad is
absolutely serious about opening a front against Israel from the Golan.
It only remains to be done, he said. “Syria is fully capable of
implementing this decision on its own. If necessary, we’ll help, but
it’s up to Syria.”
As
a bonus, Nasrallah’s expanded intervention in the Syria war assures him
that the advanced weapons - whose transfer into the Lebanese terrorist
group's hands Israel has vowed to prevent – will in fact be handed over
on Syrian soil.
Friday,
May 24, DEBKAfile disclosed that two competing terrorist movements,
Shiite Hizballah and Sunni al Qaeda, were pouring troops into Syria,
while US Secretary of State John Kerry remained focused an the elusive
Israel-Palestinian peace process.
After
spending 48 hours in Jerusalem and Ramallah, trying to talk Israeli and
Palestinian leaders into reviving the long-stalled Middle East peace
process, US Secretary of State John Kerry’s exit line Friday, May 24,
was: “We’re getting toward a time now when hard decisions need to be
made”.
That
was all he had to say about Israel's comments on US proposals on the
subject as unworkable and the Palestinian view that American ideas were
still unformed and conditions for reviving talks non-existent.
In
any case, the Syrian crisis hurtling forward heedless of its disastrous
potential for its neighbors is fully exercising their leaders’
attention at this time and confronting them with much more urgent “hard
decisions.”
The
Secretary himself had just come from a Friends of Syria meeting
Thursday in Amman, which was attended by a sparse 11 members compared
with the original 80. The meeting ended with a demand that the
international conference on Syria, which Kerry is trying to convene in
Geneva in the first week of June in partnership with Russia, will not
accept Assad regime representatives with blood on their hands.
Moscow
took exception to this demand Friday by means of a Russian Foreign
Ministry statement that Syria has agreed in principle to participate in
the conference, but obstacles to a date were still raised by the Syrian
opposition.
It
can’t therefore be said that Washington and Moscow see eye to eye on
the key issues of Syrian representation at the conference they are
jointly sponsoring.
The
US still insists that Bashar Assad must go before a political solution
can be broached, while Russia continues to champion and arm him.
The
most conspicuous feature of Kerry’s current Middle East tour is the
strong dichotomy between his public statements and mission and the
events taking place in the real world around him.
DEBKAfile
analysts assign this gap between the Secretary’s perceptions and
reality to US President Barack Obama’s own evasiveness on the “hard
decisions” he needs to take for determining the level of US involvement
in the acute crises shaking this highly volatile region.
This
was evident in the speech he delivered Thursday, March 23, in which he
stressed the effort to pull the United States away from its inclusive
“post 9/11 war on terror” and “return to normalcy.”
He said “lethal force [such as drones] will only be used against targets who pose a continuing imminent threat to Americans.”
Obama’s
message was totally unrelated to the rising militancy of the two most
virulent Islamic terrorist movements of the present day.
As
he spoke, Al Qaeda, on the one hand, and the Lebanese Shiite Hizballah,
on the other, continued to pour fighting strength into Syria and feed
the flames of a calamitous civil war which has claimed more than 80,000
lives in a little more than two years.
Our
military sources report that Hizballah brigades are forming up with the
Syrian army for their next decisive battle, after their al-Qusayr
victory, for the capture of the northern city of Homs; Al Qaeda jihadis
are streaming across the border from Iraq to cement rebel control of the
Deir a-Zor region of eastern Syria.
The
aggressive actions of both Hizballah and al Qaeda in Syria are outside
the bounds of the US president’s revised objectives for the US war on
terror – hence, the rationale for US non-involvement in any part of the
Syrian conflict.
At
the same time, both these movements are at war, declared or undeclared,
on Israel, Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. Their destabilizing impact
extends to the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah too.
In
terms of timing and immediacy, therefore, the ”hard decisions” John
Kerry called for are right outside the current Middle East context.
Israel’s leaders must decide urgently how to address Syria’s headlong
descent into more bloodshed at a time that Iran, Russia, Al Qaeda and
Hizballah are in charge of events.
The
initiative led by the US Secretary of State and Russian Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov for an international conference to hammer out a
political solution for the Syrian crisis in no way slowed its momentum.
Israel’s
leaders might perhaps best be advised to prioritize attention to
determining how best to handle the perils looming from Syria ahead of
Kerry’s bid for a return to talks with the Palestinians.
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